Radical Gratitude: Recalibrating Your Heart in An Age of Entitlement

As Christians we should be the most grateful people alive. After all, doesn't the Bible encourage thankfulness and condemn grumbling?

Peter Maiden traces the theme of thanksgiving in Scripture, and shows how we can genuinely live counter-cultural lives even in an age of rampant entitlement. With a pastoral heart, he explains how gratitude is the key to joyful, consistent Christian living, discipleship and mission involvement. He focuses on:

· how we can develop the habit of thanksgiving
· the benefits of gratitude
· how we can be grateful, even in hard times


Each chapter unpacks biblical truth and grounds it with practical application and personal illustrations. A series of short Bible study questions and reflections (mostly on the Psalms) conclude the chapters.

As he was writing this book, poignantly and to his great shock, the author learned that he was suffering from incurable cancer. Far from derailing his message, this unwelcome news energised his efforts as he poured out his vision on the page with his now-limited resources. This is authenticity at its best. This book will be the author's last.

160 pages

In an age where whining has become a pandemic, where entitlement sits cheek by jowl with incessant dubious claims of victimization, Peter Maiden provides us with an alternative -- a profoundly biblical alternative. In twelve short chapters he not only exhorts his readers to thankfulness, but fleshes out a plethora of reasons we should be grateful, and paints pictures of the glory of gratitude -- a gospel duty and privilege, and a mark of faith

- D. A. Carson, Emeritus Professor of N T at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, Illinois, Founder/President of the Gospel Coalition

A wonderful, inspiring book! It addresses a topic that we desperately need in our anxious age of entitlement: gratitude is the hallmark of the Christian life because it helps us understand that God’s grace is an extravagant, undeserved gift from our loving God.

Peter Maiden excels in showing us how to develop contentment and gratitude, while still being honest about our struggles and weaknesses. His wisdom, experience and biblical insight flow through every page. Read this book and share it!

- Rebecca Manley Pippert, author of Stay Salt: The World Has Changed - Our Message Must Not